FERGUSON, Mo.—Doyle Beck learned that his Little Caesars pizza shop was burning down when he saw it on live TV.

He and his manager had decided to close early Monday and get their employees on their way home by 7:30 p.m., about an hour before the announcement that a grand jury wouldn’t indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

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